[Smooth Jazz] (1997) Fourplay - The Best of Fourplay [FLAC] [Dark...

    Fourplay - The Best of Fourplay (1997)

Review:
What looked at first like a premature marketing ploy -- a greatest-hits collection after only three albums? -- now makes some historical sense, for founding member Lee Ritenour left the quartet not long after the CD's release. So this is in essence a summary of Fourplay's first edition, a collection of mildly funky, ethereally voiced selections from Fourplay, Between the Sheets, and Elixir, where Ritenour, Bob James, Nathan East, and Harvey Mason integrate their personalities into a smoothly homogenized whole. To sweeten the pot for the hardcore fans, Fourplay recorded three new tracks for the album -- Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" with vocals by Take 6, "4 Play and Pleasure," and "Any Time of Day" -- all fairly uneventful. The musicianship is impeccable, the production velvety, and despite the suitable-for-lovemaking-and-commuting stamp of approval, one wishes that these fine players would just cut loose and really rip once in a while. — AMG

Track List:
01 Max-O-Man
02 101 Eastbound
03 Higher Ground
04 4 Play and Pleasure
05 Chant
06 After the Dance
07 Bali Run
08 Play Lady Play
09 Between the Sheets
10 Amoroso
11 Any Time of Day
12 Why Can’t It Wait Till Morning


Media Report:
Genre: Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Pop
Origin: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)


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